Economic Security Project (BC)

While
the BC government mulls over the Supreme Court's recent landmark
decision that Bill 29 is unconstitutional (because it infringes on
health care workers' right to collective bargaining), it should also
consider the constitutionality of another piece of labour legislation
passed in 2002.

Although not yet challenged before the courts,
Bill 48 (the Employment Standards Amendment Act) wiped out equality
rights for thousands of BC workers. The Bill arbitrarily excludes
unionized workers from the Employment Standards Act, the law that sets